Dragon Knight

Darkness covered Garyx vision. He seemed to be falling through an endless void. He looked around, wondering where he was. Then he waited. And waited. And waited. And waited. The more he waited, the more nervous he became. Just as he was about to shout out in annoyance, he then saw a bright light headed his way. The light became brighter, and brighter, and brighter until it became so bright that he had to shield his eyes. Then everything went black.

When he came to, he was greeted with the feeling of soft grass. Bright light filled his vision. When he adjusted to the light, he sat up and scanned his surroundings. He seemed to be in a forest filled with dark, weird looking plants. The forest gave off an uneasy feeling like it was watching his every movement. He then stood up slowly.

'Where am I?' Questions were buzzing through Garyx head like a bunch of angry bees all the while he was glancing around at this place.

How did he end up in a forest? He was in an open field. What had that witch done!? Garyx sighed. The good thing was he got to see her head roll off her shoulders. Back to the matter at hand. Garyx suddenly couldn't feel Kuroi Ryū in his hand causing him to look everywhere for it. To most it would be just a weapon but to him, it was precious to him. After all, he carried the ones he ever cared for in his life in that weapon. He stopped as he saw sunlight reflecting off something. Glancing over he saw his greatest ally through all his battles stabbed into a tree. Walking over he grasped the handle that was made from the bones of his parents and with a simple yank the weapon was free.

Glancing at the forest he tried to think of more of his surrounding.......and why did this forest felt weird to him. He stopped when he heard a small snap of a twig coming from his right. Narrowing his eye he turned towards the sound while swinging Kuroi Ryū around before pointing it towards a bush with one hand.

"Come out now before I tear you to pieces!" Garyx growled as he stared into the bush.

He continued to stare. It didn't take long before several green eyes suddenly revealed themselves in the shadows of the bush. Growls and even an occasional howl could be heard as canine-like wood creatures revealed themselves slightly causing a confused expression to appear on Garyx face as he stared.

'Wolfs? Made out of wood?'

He had seen wolves before though they didn't have glowing green eyes. They most certainly weren't made out of wood.

The wolves walked around him in circles, closing the gap between them and Garyx slowly but surely. All the while, they were snarling and biting at each other, as if they were arguing over who would make the first launch. Garyx eyes narrowed at the hunting tactic he seen before. So he stood there waiting for the wolves to make their move. Garyx brought Kuroi Ryū back towards his side while resting one end of the weapon on the ground. To anyone who had looked at him it would like he was giving up. Garyx instead was waiting.

One of the wolves finally broke free from the rest of the pack. It rushed towards him and leaped into the air in order to pounce on its meal. Garyx spun and swung Kuroi Ryū upwards with one hand. The blade easily slashed through the wolf body like butter causing it split down the middle before the pieces fell past Garyx who stood there holding his weapon before twirling it around until it was behind him. Garyx glared over at the rest of the wolfs with a snarl.

A few of the younger wolves started to back away from the creature, the consequence of their friend’s last attack still fresh in their mind. Their retreat was soon halted by a sharp bark from their pack leader, who growled furiously at Garyx before letting out a loud howl. One by one, the other wolves began to join in with their own howls, and soon enough, the entire pack was in on it.

It was then that all of them while Garyx just raised an eyebrow, started to glow green. Their bodies slowly shattered into pieces as their branches began to attach themselves to the pack leader. Even a few stumps and old trees floated in over Garyx head as the monstrosity in front of him continuously grew in size. Giants claws dug themselves into the earth as they sunk deeper and deeper down into the soil from their owner's weight.

The giant timberwolf let out a thundering roar. It's sickening breath came out of its mouth in a trail of dark green smoke, packing the punch of a powerful, stinking gust of wind. Drops of nectar dropped from its fangs as its lowered its head to look at the surely horrified expression on the creature's face.

Garyx just stood there not impressed at all with an unreadable expression. The wolf's eyes widened in surprise before a hateful growl escaped its throat while it took steps towards Garyx who still did not shake in fear. Finally, his lips formed a smile. "Want to play with the big boys now pup!?"

Garyx body was consumed by fire. The next second he appeared in his dragon form with the fire still surrounding him yet not burning the forest. He let out a small breath of fire while the giant wolf only stared at its prey with fear causing it to take a few, anxious steps back. As it backed further and further away. Its steps became unbalanced, nearly making the monster fall over in now completely apparent terror. Garyx snorted out some flame at the creature that had turned from wanting to eat him to a sniveling coward.

"Leave."

The wolf wasted no time, letting out a loud whimper as it made a heel turn and ran for its life while Garyx humphed still staring at where the wolf ran off. Letting out a sigh he needed sleep. He doesn't even remember having a good nights rest. That was when he smelled something familiar. Glancing up he saw smoke in the air. Following where it was coming from he saw it leading towards a mountain......and hopefully a cave. With a flap of his wings, he flew up towards the mountain both curious and hopefully a cave he can hide away from the humans. Landing he saw exactly what he wanted. A cave. Though he could go without the snoring and smoke being blow into his face.

'Perhaps whoever is here will let me stay.'

He walked inside only to see who it was blowing smoke in his face. It was a red dragon. It towered over Garyx dragon form though the dragon was smaller than his father had been. The dragon let out another puff of smoke that compeltly covered Garyx who simply blew away the smoke with his wings while gritting his teeth. He opened his mouth to say something but stopped as he saw the dragon was awake with its eyes staring at him. The dragons eyes were slits as they glared at him.

"What do you want hatchling?" The dragon asked while blowing a puff of smoke at Garyx. A classical act at trying to intimidate.

Garyx glared straight at him with narrowed eyes while letting his puff of fire at the dragon. It surprised the dragon a little as fire brushed his face before he turned back to glaring.

"I was wondering if..."

"No."

Garyx glared at the dragon that cut him off before even letting him finish.

"How about you let me fi...."

"How about you leave before You become my snack?" He growled at Garyx who returned the growl.

"Listen here! I am trying to be polite! Keep interrupting....."

"You do what hatchling? Cry to your mommy?"

Garyx let out a frustrated roar and flew at the dragon who stared surprised even as Garyx body slam into his knocking him down onto his pile of gold sending it splattering everywhere. The dragon growled as he stood slowly. He had never seen a dragon done that before or even caught themselves on fire before.

The dragon roared and rushed at Garyx. Though he was slow since his body could barely fit inside the cave while Gayrx had plenty of room to dodge around him allowing him to bit at the dragon tearing through his scales causing blood to pour and him to roar in pain. Garyx took one last bit and with a single pull he ripped a scale off the dragon showing his vulnerable skin underneath. The dragon growled in pain as he held his stomach where he was missing a scale.

Garyx glared even as he spat the scale out his mouth while blood dripped down his mouth.

"Changed your mind?"

The dragon answer was a growl before it eventually sighed.

"You can nap here."

Garyx nodded his head in thanks.

"But I refuse to share a cave with you!" The dragon roared in his face.

Garyx quickly moved out of the way as the dragon swiped at......his gold? Garyx just watched as the dragon quickly gathered his gold before turning and leaving the cave before flying off where only he knew. He stared for what seemed to be a long time before he sighed.

"Idiot."

He wasn't intending to kick the dragon out of his home but on the bright side, he found a place where he could finally get some rest peacefully. Letting out a long yawn he curled up on the ground. Oh how he missed the warmness of lava but he had to do what he could with what he want. His thoughts soon turned dark. How long will it be before more humans show up? He snorted flames out his mouth even as he slowly closed his eyes falling asleep. He had one thought though.

'WHERE THE HELL AM I!?'